What are Healthy Foods for your Skin?

Most people looking out for a beneficial beauty routine go in for commercially made and marketed products that can only determine their usefulness through trial and error (and cost you a bundle too), the best way to invest in long-lasting beauty and health is through intake of top skin food. These include products from nature’s bounty that are plentiful in quantity and freely available for the picking should one venture to go back to basics and become beautiful-naturally!

Some Top Skin Foods:

• Nothing nutty about nuts for natural beauty! Among the best and most nourishing gifts of nature are nuts like almonds and walnuts that are very effective in maintaining good skin. Almonds are natural moisturizers since they contain high dosage of vitamin E and oil extracted from almonds is used for treating dark circles and excessively dry skin. An excellent and extremely nourishing face wash using powdered almonds can be mixed with fresh cream or cold milk and applied to the face and neck; it can be left on for five minutes and rinsed off with cold water to reveal skin that is fresh and smooth.
• Getting cozy with cucumbers! Cucumbers are easily available in most kitchens and are great for making skin masks, facial packs or even for just using as tired-eye soothers after a day out in the sun or excessive eye-activity. Cucumber water can be used as a face wash to leave your skin feeling smoother. They are great helpers in aiding the fading the freckles, bleaching skin naturally, softening hard skin and toning it; cucumbers also have a cooling effect on the skin and help nourish it from harsh sunburn effects.
• Cleansing carrot care for skin: can help soothe the most tired skin and bring back the youthful glow to your facial muscles. Carrots are natural cleansers in the raw, grated form and when applied to washed skin, leave it soft and supple. Carrots are also an excellent antiseptic and used widely in creams for dry skins.
• Tomato treat for oily skin: Tomatoes are rich in potassium and vitamin C and help to reduce open pores-the prime culprit of clogged sebaceous glands that leads to acne and blackheads. Cutting a tomato in half and rubbing it onto the skin and leaving it for better absorption of juices for about fifteen minutes helps it saturate into the pores. This can be washed off with water to reveal tighter, lighter and much drier skin than the oily feel of before-pack use.
• Go bananas! Bananas are excellent skin moisturizers and extremely nourishing facemask since they tighten and soften the skin, cleanse the pores and invigorate the skin. Just the juice from one mashed banana with a dash of lemon juice cooled in the refrigerator for about ten minutes and applied all over the face liberally can do the trick in half an hour: simply rinse it off to reveal the new, younger and fresher looking you!